26 Jul
2007
26 Jul
'07
12:15 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:03:46PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:24:50AM +0100, Rev Simon
Rumble wrote:
I believe this is what Sitemaps are for?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html
Sorry not really following most of this conversation due to flooding...
Dominic.
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Indeed, this should most certainly be done for
all revisions of a
page except the current, so that if someone reverts spam without the
admin password, it's not indexed by the crawlers.
PS: I strongly doubt it's Google causing problems. Google is a very
well behaved bot. Others like the MSN one are much less well behaved.
I'm not convinced of that.
Google routinely and regularly fetches *large* pages on the Open Guide
to Boston that almost never change. Think Category Restaurant page --
1MB page, changes maybe once a week, Google fetches it daily.
Granted, OG Boston is particularly poorly optimized for this because we
use index_list in our category pages. The actual index_value, etc. mode
in wiki.cgi is significantly more lightweight. (Bad decision on my
part.) But you don't have to have someone fetching much data to hurt a
site, and even if Google is only requesting things slowly, they can
still exceed the return rate of the server.